'Run, children,' said Wise-as-an-Owl. 'No, hide! It's a creature from the past -- a fearsome, fire-breathing monster.' When Much-to-Learn gets ahead of his lessons in the Book of Spells, he creates a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a serpent. Everyone is in danger, unless Tashi can sneak by the terrible chimera to get the magic formula that will destroy it. And when Tashi is accused of killing the carp in Soh Meen's pond he serves a Truth Potion to his neighbours to find the real culprit.
Author Biography
Anna Fienberg is the author of many popular and award-winning books for children of all ages, and has picture books, junior fiction and teenage fiction to her credit. She has worked as an editor and consultant for a national book club, and also writes in collaboration with her mother, Barbara Fienberg. Kim Gamble is one of Australia's leading illustrators for children. Barbara Fienberg writes the Tashi stories in collaboration with her daughter Anna Fienberg.
